Could you see “Heroes” star Hayden Pannettiere being a singer? She told Now Magazine that “it’s hard to get people to accept me as a singer because they see me as an actor”. And I couldn’t agree more, but I’ve never personally heard her sing so you can’t knock it until you try it. -S.L.
“Charlie Parker showed Dizzy a way of playing that almost eliminated that swing feel that Dizzy had in the early ’40s, but that also incorporated those harmonic ideas that they both created. So I think the way of getting from one note to the next was very much Charlie Parker’s influence on Dizzy. But if Charlie Parker was the stylist, Dizzy was sort of the architect that taught the musicians how to build the music … Dizzy said that Charlie Parker used to come over to his house, and Dizzy’s wife Lorraine wouldn’t let him in, so Charlie Parker would be in the hallway playing and Dizzy would write it down, and then show it to the other musicians. So Dizzy took the things that Charlie Parker got off the top of his head - Dizzy said he never saw him sit at the piano - and he would show other musicians.”
- Jon Faddis
Very few jazz musicians affected the history of their musical style as much as Charlie “Bird” Parker. And certainly no saxophonist was more important than Charlie Parker. His innovations in creating the style of “bebop” forever changed the jazz idiom and the minds of jazz musicians. Unfortunately, his career was cut short in 1955 when he died in Baroness Nica’s apartment. Had Bird lived longer, the impact he would have further had on jazz music would have been incredible.
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I meant to post these some days back, but here's a couple of songs from Corrine Bailey’s New album “The Sea”. It’s Not as good as her first album ( In my opinion), but her Incredible voice is always soothing music for the soul - BrittSense
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March 4, Black Swan Records was formed, the first African American owned record label in America. March 1921, under Delaware state laws and using $30,000 in borrowed capital, Harry Herbert Pace organized the Pace Phonograph Corporation INC. The company’s first office was his home on West 138 Street, New York. Pace had a difficult time entering the record business. White record companies gave him obstacles to keep him out. When Pace tried to use a local pressing company, a large white company purchased the plant and would not do business with him. He got a local studio to record, but had to send the master to a pressing plant in Wisconsin. After 6 weeks with preliminary work and ingredients in place, record laboratories, wrapping paper and corrugated board, he began to manufacture Black Swan Records. More than ever, in the years 1922 and 1923, obtaining Black artists became increasingly harder as the major white companies began to bid competitively for their services. After Black Swan’s Vaudeville tour concluded in July of 1922, artists like Fletcher Henderson and Ethel Waters no longer recorded exclusively for Black Swan Records. The success of race records led to costly competition and price-cutting by white-owned labels such as Okeh, Paramount, and Columbia. Many Blacks from the entertainment community resented Pace and Black Swan. This was for breaking his promise of an all-Black recording company, though he continued to advertise otherwise. It was proven that the company was pressing records that used music by white ensembles such as the Original Memphis Five. Pace began to lose the respect and confidence of the musician community and it became more difficult to continue to produce a quality product. In March of 1923, the Pace Phonograph Company was renamed the Black Swan Phonograph Co., signaling that trouble was coming and by the summer no new recordings of Black Swan were announced. Black Swan Records concluded operation in 1924.
